Jala

Information and facts about the municipality of Jala

Location of Jala

The municipality of Jala is located in the Mexican state of Nayarit México

Population of Jala

The overall population of the municipality named Jala is 16071 citizens, 7841 males and 8230 females.

Age distribution

The population of Jala is divided into 6779 minors and 9292 adults, with 1786 of them older than 60 years.

Indigenous population of Jala

200 people in Jala live in indigenous households. An indigenous language is spoken by 106 people who are older than 5 years. The number of people who only speak an indigenous language is 0 and 106 speak both an indigenous language and Spanish.

Social Structure

A legal claim on health care and social insurance benefits have 6324 citizens of Jala.

Economic situation

In Jala about 3716 households are registered.

3705 of these households are common houses or apartments, 705 are without floor and about 204 consist of one room only.

3286 of the normal households have sanitary installations, 3045 are connected to the public water supply, 3501 have access to electricity.

The economic situation allows 260 households to own a computer, 1382 own a washing machine and 3084 households are equipped with one ore more televisions.

School and education in Jala

Besides the 910 analphabets aged 15 or older, about 270 minors between 6 and 14 are not visiting a school.

909 inhabitants of the population of 15 years and older did not visit a school and 4946 persons did not finish the school. 1854 visited only the 6 years lasting primary school, 2679 visited and finished the college or similar scholar institutions.

A total of 1132 aged 15 to 24 years visited a school, the medium time school is visited through the whole population is 7 years.